Illegal sand mining: Police step up surveillance along banks of Chaliyar river

The constabulary person stepped up nighttime patrols and begun predominant flash inspections on the banks of the Chaliyar stream to curb the amerciable soil mining and concealed commercialized successful the area. The enactment follows the impounding of a fewer boats and goods-carriers utilized to transport the illegally extracted soil from the susceptible stretches of the riverbank.

Police sources accidental plainclothesmen person been deployed to support a adjacent ticker connected the amerciable entree points, portion enactment from section informants volition beryllium sought to way the question of hired migrant labourers and goods carriers progressive successful the illicit trade. With the enactment of section administrators, plans are besides underway to adjacent each illegally made entree routes to the river.

Mavoor grama panchayat officials corroborate that the revival of ward-level committees comprising biology activists and section residents to guarantee sustained extortion of the riverbank is besides nether progressive consideration. According to them, the involution of Revenue section squads is arsenic important to enactment the cause.

Efforts spell successful vain

“What we request present is to adjacent each the illegally created entree points to the river. There were efforts connected the portion of the section administrators to place and artifact respective specified points, but the labourers hired for the amerciable enactment were recovered destroying each specified preventive barriers,” says a section biology activistic from Mavoor panchayat. He points retired that the Revenue section has a bigger relation to analyse specified complaints and find a solution.

According to a erstwhile section assemblage subordinate from the area, beardown factual pillars should beryllium constructed to restrict the entree for goods-carriers to the stream bank. He besides demands an probe into the relation of immoderate of the section gangs engaged successful persuading section landowners to enactment successful favour of the soil miners’ groups for commission.

“The re-entry of soil miners’ groups adjacent from neighbouring districts was noticed during the section assemblage predetermination clip erstwhile the panchayat level squads were not actively functioning. If the constabulary are present acceptable to impound each the illegally operated boats, the amerciable commercialized volition decidedly travel to an end,” says M.P. Vishnu, a section tourism entrepreneur. He feels that determination should beryllium an intensified checking connected the roadworthy excessively for preventing the section commercialized of illegally collected stream sand.